This Weaver High School Yearbook collection was created for the alumni to help them recall their personal high school experience and for their present and future family members to help them gain insight into the high school experience of their family alumni that attended Weaver.

Weaver High School was located on  25 Ridgefield Street Hartford Connecticut. The first graduation was held in June of 1924. About 1976 the school was relocated to 415 Granby St Hartford, Connecticut.

The Weaver High CT Yearbook Digitization Project was created and implemented by Robert James Ellis Weaver Class of 1966 EnjoyTodayToo@yahoo.com.

Weaver High School was built in 1922 at 25 Ridgefield Street. Hartford, Connecticut and named for longtime superintendent of Hartford Public Schools, Thomas Snell Weaver (1845-1920). Designed by Frank Irving Cooper with Philip A. Mason in the Collegiate Gothic style, it is architectural masterpiece, similar to the 1924 Bulkeley/M.D. Fox School that was also designed by Cooper. The building overlooks Keney Park and Albany Avenue from a commanding site. The building is divided into three parts: a three-story main block containing classrooms and offices, and smaller two-story connected buildings at either end for the gymnasium and auditorium. The central projecting pavilion of the main block has the main entrance, recessed within the arch, and is fully embellished with intricate Gothic details. Over the entrance in cast stone are images of 13 Aesop’s Fables by Anthony Zottoli of Boston.

Thomas Snell Weaver was born on February 5, 1845 in Willimantic, Connecticut, the son of William L. Weaver and Lois Snell weaver. His father was a well known teacher, book seller and writer. At 14 he entered the office of ‘The Willimantic Journal” where his father was the editor, and learned the printer’s trade. He later worked at the “Worcester Daily Press” writing news and editorials and in 1873 became the telegraph editor of the “New Haven Register”. Mr. Weaver became highly regarded for his terse pungent prose and was apparently highly quoted. In 1882 he worked for the “Boston Globe” as a political writer and on May 1, 1893 came to Hartford to work at the “Hartford Post” and then “The Courant’. Contemporary accounts report that his insights and comments were very well received. In June of 1901 he became superintendent of the Hartford schools. It was reported that” When he assumed charge of the school board office he carried the records from the office of his predecessor, Judge Herbert S. Bullard, to the board quarters in the First National Bank building, where the office remained until removed to a room in the building of the Connecticut Mutual Life Ins. Co. When the Municipal Building was erected (in 1915) the office went there. As superintendent Mr. Weaver signed diplomas for classes which graduated from high school. In 1900 the number was about 100. In 1919 it was about 350.” Mr. Weaver was on the Hartford Parks Commission and at one time served as its president. Mr. Weaver died at his home at 35 Beacon Street on February 8, 1922 at the age of 77. On June 21, 1924 a memorial tablet to Mr. Weaver was unveiled in the lobby of the Ridgefield Street School. Given by the teachers and school children of Hartford it was designed by Louis A. Goldenrod of Meriden.

On September 21, 1976 the Hartford Board of Education, following the recommendation of the board’s School Naming Committee approved the renaming the former Weaver High School to the Martin Luther King Jr. School.

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Researched and compiled by Wilson H. Faude Project Historian, Hartford History Center Hartford Public Library January 28, 2011